Step 4: Mark and Tweeze

Step 5: Fill

Clean up your brows as best you can before you start filling back in with pencil. I mentioned it in step 2, but I try and use as little pencil as poss...

For many years, I was paying about 30 dollars a month to get my eyebrows groomed professionally at salons. When I did the math and realized that was 360+ dollars a year, I couldn't allow this wallet-massacre to keep happening. I invested in a few good pairs of tweezers and decided to groom my brows from that point forward.

In the following steps, I will describe how I retain a natural shape for my brow, and clean them up to get that salon look.

Step 2: A History Lesson & Helpful Tips

The best thing you can do for your face shape is to go with your natural brow shape. I know I have a full brow, and it would look pretty strange if I suddenly thinned them out a bunch. I work with the shape that my genetics gave me, but just clean it up a bit with scissors and light tweezing.

Some of the most historically sensational eyebrows have been on the faces of movie stars. If you look at the grid, you'll see that most of these starlets brows appear natural and full. The ones that are thin are drawn back in with dark pencil. For a natural look, you barely use an eyebrow pencil at all. If you have to use a pencil, it is to fill in sparse spots. (I have a small scar on my left eyebrow that I often gently dust with an eyebrow pencil)

Eyebrow pencil is not as waxy as eyeliners and other makeup pencils, it is more of a powdery pencil that requires a light touch when applying. Use sparingly.

Thanks for the How-To! I just learned (after 60 yrs!) how to determine the natural eyebrow line: Scowl as hard as you can, and the indented fold is where your eyebrow should fall at the outer side of your eyes. Hope this is helpful. Also, eyebrow powder is subtle for filling in skimpy areas.